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ODA and Dbvisit : Create a SNAPSHOT database?

As you might know, Oracle doesn't offer any disaster recovery solution for their Oracle Standard Edition databases. Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection and disaster recovery for Oracle Enterprise Edition database only. Dbvisit is a great disaster recovery(…)

Combine Oracle SEHA on ODA with Dbvisit StandbyMP?

I recently blog on Oracle SEHA on ODA, see my article https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/seha-on-oda/. Oracle SEHA is used for High Availability for Standard Edition. Dbvisit Standby is a Disaster Recovery well known application designed for Oracle Standard Edition.

SEHA on ODA?

SEHA means Standard Edition High Availability. SEHA is fully integrated with Oracle Grid Infrastructure starting with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c, and more specifically since RU 19.7. SEHA provides then cluster-based failover for single-instance Standard Edition Oracle Databases using Oracle Clustware.

Deploying 11.2.0.4 on a recent ODA

How to deploy 11gR2 database on a modern ODA(…)

High Availability VMs on ODA

Virtualisation is now possible on the ODA whatever it is an ODA Lite or HA. The virtualisation is based on KVM and integrated with odacli for Bare Metal installation. Virtualisation has got the advantage to allocate resources to databases and(…)

Warning: ODA HA disk enclosure is not smart!

Introduction Apart from the number of servers (1 vs 2), the main difference between Oracle Database Appliance lite (S/L) and High-Availability (HA) is the data disks location. They are inside the server on lite ODAs, and in a dedicated disk(…)

ODA X9-2 and CPU speed

Introduction It’s been several months now that Oracle released new Oracle Database Appliance X9-2 series. And my first project with 4 of these servers is coming to an end as moving to production is planned for the next weeks. What(…)

Patch ODA X8 : 19.9 to 19.11

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this blog, I describe the patching of an ODA X8 from 19.9 to 19.11. We use following patches p32790643_1911000_Linux-x86-64.zip : Oracle Database Appliance Server Patch for ODACLI/DCS Stackp30403673_1911000_Linux-x86-64.zip : Oracle Database Appliance GI Clone for(…)

ODA: how to configure ILOM IP without DHCP?

Introduction Once your brand new Oracle Database Appliance is racked and connected to power, the first configuration step is to setup the static IP address on the management console (ILOM). Until ODA X6-2 generation, servers were equipped with a VGA(…)

Patching your ODA may enable all cores!

Introduction If you use Enterprise Edition on your Oracle Database Appliance environment, and if you don’t have unlimited licences, you probably lowered the CPU cores available on each server to dispatch your licences accross your environment. This operation is normally(…)